Ellen Langer Quotes
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Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.
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Like the Elizabeth I play, Queen Elizabeth is a monarch who actually moves with the times. She gets new information, assimilates it, and changes in order the fit in with the way the world is moving. I admire that.
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I have fallen in love so many times. If one relationship ended, I would search for another girl. I was always madly in love with all the girls that I dated.
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Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.
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My goal isn't to shock.
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GIS started on mainframe computers; we could get one map every five to 10 hours, and if we made a mistake, it could take longer. In the early '90s, when people started buying PCs, we migrated to desktop software.
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I realize that I'm not going to be everybody's cup of tea, and that's okay. I think that's the point of music.
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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.
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My thing about having another child was, time's-a-wasting!
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After India and China, Indonesia was the biggest new nation-state to emerge in the mid-twentieth century.
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I make jam, and oh my God, it is so delicious.
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The premises being thus settled, I proceed to observe that the concatenation of self-existence, proceeding in a reciprocal duplicate ratio, naturally produces a problematical dialogism, which in some measure proves that the essence of spirituality may be referred to the second predicable.
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I have nothing to do with counting the votes.
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I'm a designer, and I think if you work in fashion, you have to give people fantasy.
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It's harder for me to relate to people who don't have families that are loud and crazy.
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The best real-estate investments with the highest yields are in working-class neighborhoods, because fancy properties are overpriced.
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I want every child in America to eat a nutritious, delicious, sustainably sourced school lunch for free.
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Organisation can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgement.
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I want to be a partner with business, labor, civic leaders, foundations, other churches so that we can work together... If I can talk to all of these people and have something in common, maybe I can get them to see that they also have something in common with each other when we come together.
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There's something really terrible about having your BlackBerry next to your bed or having your laptop in the living room when you're talking to someone. The biggest source of stress in my life is the screen, the blogging.
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History is the story of events, with praise or blame.
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I saw that my camera gave me a sense of connection with others that I never had before. It allowed me to enter lives, satisfying a curiosity that was always there but that was never explored before.
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Stress is a function not of events, but of our view of those events.
